Glacier National Park during the Conservation Movement
- Date Range
- May 11, 1910 – May 11, 1911
- Title
- Glacier National Park during the Conservation Movement
- What occurred
- Glacier National Park was signed into law by President Taft on May 11, 1910. It is in northwestern Montana and on the Canadian border on the Rocky Mountains. John Muir wrote about his travels in his collection of essays Our National Parks in 1901, prior to the official designation of the park. He writes“[w]ander here a whole summer, if you can. Thousands of God’s wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go uncounted…you will find yourself in the midst of what you are sure to say is the best care-killing scenery on the continent.” Similar to his perspective on Yosemite, Muirs writing sparked the conservation movement in the early 1900's, along with Roosevelt, Pinchot, and Cole.
- Location
- Glacier National Park, Montana
- Image Citation
- Bailey, Colonization of the Crown: Hunting, Class, and the Creation of Glacier National Park, 1885-1915
- Student name(s)
- Sofia Barth